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It's tempting to use the analogy of rats.

"Author William Peter Blatty once won $10,000 on You Bet Your Life. When Groucho Marx asked what he planned to do with the money, he said he planned to take some time off to work on a novel. The result was The Exorcist (1973)." —@batboy222.bsky.social

"Then and there, I knew that color would haunt me forever.."

      "THE CRUCIFIXION

   And the centurion who stood by said:
   Truly this was a son of God.

Not long ago but everywhere I go
   There is a hill and a black windy sky.
Portent of hill, sky, day's eclipse I know:
   Hill, sky, the shuddering darkness, these am I.

The dying at His right hand, at His left
   I am—the thief redeemed and the lost thief;
I am the careless folk; I those bereft,
   The Well-Belov'd, the women bowed in grief.

The gathering Presence that in terror cried,
   In earth's shock, in the Temple's veil rent through,
I; and a watcher, ignorant, curious-eyed,
   I the centurion who heard and knew."

—Adelaide Crapsey

The problem with social media.